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MAKKAH: The Saudi National Center for Wildlife revealed types of wildlife officially and permanently protected from hunting. The NCW presented an infographic pointing out Article 4 of the Executive Regulations for Wildlife Hunting, which prohibits hunting predators such as the Arabian leopard, hyenas, wolves, jackals, lynxes, sand cats, common genets, and honey badgers.
TABUK: Tabuk is one of the prominent regions in the Kingdom that significantly contributes toward the needs of the country by producing different types of agricultural crops on more than 14,500 farms over an area exceeding 270,000 hectares. Every year from July until October alone, farms in Tabuk harvest from more than 55,000 fig trees that produce about 150 tons of the fruit
MAKKAH: Tabuk has been ranked first in the Kingdom for grape production. The region produces more than 43,750 tons of grape annually and has cultivated 1,580,575 grape trees, according to the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture. “The cultivation and harvesting processes of grapes are professionally and systematically carried out in Tabuk by the largest
RIYADH: More than 50 local and international experts and specialists attended a workshop at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology to discuss the implementation of the Saudi Green Initiative’s plans to plant 10 billion trees. The event was organized by the National Center for the Development of Vegetation Cover and Combating Desertification in cooperation with